DOH

• Health Resources:

  • Rural Health Unit (RHU) and their sub-centers
  • Chest clinics, Malaria Eradication Units and  Schistosomiasis Control Unit
  • Tuberculosis clinics and Hospitals of the PTBs
  • Private Clinics
  • Clinics run by PMA
  • Community Hospitals and Health services  Centers run by Philippine Medical Care  Commission (PMCC)
  • Voluntary Health Facilities run by religious and  civic groups.
• Three divisions of health care delivery system:

  1. Government
  2. Mixed Sectors
  3. Private Sectors
• Department of Health - The primary government agency in  the field of health runs the bulk  of the government health  facilities.
• Adolescent and Youth Health and Development Program (AYHDP) - reproductive health Sexuality, Reproductive Tract infection (STD, HIV/AIDS); Responsible parenthood, Maternal and Child Health
• Botika ng Barangay - •Refers to a drug outlet manage by a  legitimate community organization  (CO/non-government Organization (NGO)  and/or Local Government Unit (LGU), with  a trained operator and a supervising  pharmacist specifically established in  accordance with Administrative Order No.  144 s. 2004.
• Promotion of Breast feeding program/  Mother and Baby Friendly Hospital  Initiative (MBFHI) - The Mother and Baby Friendly Hospital  Initiative is the main strategy to transform  all hospitals with maternity and new born  services into facilities
• Cancer Control Program - begun in 1988, for six leading cancers (lung, breast, liver, cervix,  oral cavity, colon and rectum)
• Diabetes Control Program - aims to improve the quality of life of people with diabetes
• Mixed Sectors :

  • PTS - Philippine Tuberculosis Society
  • PCS - Philippine Cancer Society
  • PRC - Philippine Red Cross
  • PMHA - Philippine Mental Health Association
  • PHA - Philippine Heart Association
• Socialized Medicine - funded by general taxation; emphasis on prevention
• Compulsory Health Insurance - law requires people to subscribe to health insurance plan, usually government sponsored.
• Voluntary Health insurance - government only encourages people to subscribe to health insurance
• Free enterprise - People have to take care of their medical needs
• diabetes - is a serious chronic metabolic disease characterized by an increase in blood sugar levels associated with long term damage
• DENGUE CONTROL PROGRAM - Directed towards community-based prevention and control in endemic areas; major strategy is advocacy and promotion, particularly the Four O’clock Habit, which was adopted by most LGUs
• DENTAL HEALTH PROGRAM - Comprehensive Dental Health program aims to improve the quality of life of the people through the attainment of the highest possible oral health
• EMERGING DISEASE CONTROL PROGRAM - Emerging infectious diseases are newly identified and previously unknown infection which cause public health problems either locally or internationally
• ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH - Concerned with preventing illness through managing the environment by changing people’s behavior
• EXPANDED PROGRAM ON IMMUNIZATION - to reduce infant mortality and morbidity through decreasing the prevalence of 6 immunizable diseases
• FAMILY PLANNING - responsible parenthood
• The ideal interval between pregnancies is 3-5 years.
• FOOD AND WATERBORNE DISEASES PREVENTION AND CONTROL PROGRAM (FWBDPCP)

  • Established in 1997.
  • became fully operational in 2000 with the provision of a budget amounting to PHP 551,000
  • focuses on cholera, typhoid fever, hepatitis A, and other food borne emerging diseases
• KNOCK OUT TIGDAS - strategy to reduce the number of pool of children at risk of getting measles or being susceptible to measles
• LEPROSY CONTROL PROGRAM -Envisions eliminating leprosy as a human disease by 2020
• MALARIA CONTROL PROGRAM - maintain malaria-free (absence of indigenous malaria case)
• Malaria endemic - 58-80 Provinces
• NATIONAL FILARIASIS ELIMINATION PROGRAM - General objectives: to reduce the prevalence rate to <1/1000 population for lymphatic filariasis
• Lymphatic filariasis - caused by infection with parasites classified as nematodes (roundworms) of the family Filariodidea